{"id":1995,"date":"2015-09-01T19:46:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T01:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:14:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:14:01","slug":"whats-that-i-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/spelling\/whats-that-i-spell\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s That I Spell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to make your Labor Day party the hit of the season? During a lull, pull out this spelling test and challenge your guests. Nothing endears you to your friends and neighbors quite like making them feel foolish in public.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll find the answers directly below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>. Maria looked sharp in those ___ pants.<\/p>\n<p>A) kakhi<br \/>\nB) khakhi<br \/>\nC) khaki<br \/>\nD) kakki<\/p>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong>. The ___ blaze was too much for the firemen.<\/p>\n<p>A) firey<br \/>\nB) firy<br \/>\nC) fierey<br \/>\nD) fiery<\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong>. The speed ___ on my car is broken.<\/p>\n<p>A) gauge<br \/>\nB) guage<br \/>\nC) gage<br \/>\nD) gayge<\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong>. Why would anyone show up in such a ___ outfit?<\/p>\n<p>A) garisch<br \/>\nB) garrisch<br \/>\nC) garrish<br \/>\nD) garish<\/p>\n<p><strong>5<\/strong>. The ___ made the proper call.<\/p>\n<p>A) refferee<br \/>\nB) referee<br \/>\nC) referree<br \/>\nD) refferree<\/p>\n<p><strong>6<\/strong>. The ___ was behind the old church.<\/p>\n<p>A) cemetary<br \/>\nB) cemetery<br \/>\nC) cematery<br \/>\nD) cematary<\/p>\n<p><strong>7<\/strong>. We try to ___ all the different needs of our clients.<\/p>\n<p>A) accomodate<br \/>\nB) accomadate<br \/>\nC) accommadate<br \/>\nD) accommodate<\/p>\n<p><strong>8<\/strong>. I prefer mustard, never ___.<\/p>\n<p>A) mayonnaise<br \/>\nB) mayonaise<br \/>\nC) mayonaisse<br \/>\nD) mayonnaisse<\/p>\n<p><strong>9<\/strong>. Bobby was an ___ who thought of himself as an artist.<\/p>\n<p>A) entrepeneur<br \/>\nB) entrepaneur<br \/>\nC) entrepreneur<br \/>\nD) entrapreneur<\/p>\n<p><strong>10<\/strong>. Javon and KoKo just got back from the ___.<\/p>\n<p>A) Philipines<br \/>\nB) Phillippines<br \/>\nC) Philippines<br \/>\nD) Phillipines<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANSWERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>: C) <em>khaki<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong>: D) <em>fiery<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong>: A) <em>gauge<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong>: D) <em>garish<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>5<\/strong>: B) <em>referee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>6<\/strong>: B) <em>cemetery<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>7<\/strong>: D) <em>accommodate<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>8<\/strong>: A) <em>mayonnaise<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>9<\/strong>: C) <em>entrepreneur<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>10<\/strong>: C) <em>Philippines<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to make your Labor Day party the hit of the season? During a lull, pull out this spelling test and challenge your guests. Nothing endears you to your friends and neighbors quite like making them feel foolish in public. You\u2019ll find the answers directly below. 1. Maria looked sharp in those ___ pants. A) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spelling"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}